livid

Adjective
Synonyms: ashenblanchedbloodlesswhiteblack-and-blue

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (4)

  1. anemic looking from illness or emotion“a face turned ashen”“the invalid's blanched cheeks”“tried to speak with bloodless lips”“a face livid with shock”“lips...livid with the hue of death — Mary W. Shelley”“lips white with terror”“a face white with rage”Synonyms: ashenblanchedbloodlesswhite
  2. (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity“livid lightning streaked the sky”“a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day — E.A.Poe”
  3. furiously angry“willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid”
  4. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin“beaten black and blue”“livid bruises”Synonyms: black-and-blue
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Livid \Liv"id\ (l[i^]v"[i^]d), a. [L. lividus, from livere to be of a blush color, to be black and blue: cf. F. livide.]

1.Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh may be from a contusion. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

2.Extremely angry; enraged; infuriated. [PJC]

3.Pallid; ashen; -- of the skin. [PJC]

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